Jungle Paintings
Jungle Paintings describes the closed system of a volcanic crater, a kind of parallel universe, and combines images from field documentation with images from memory and imagination. Surrounded by dense jungle, in the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, lies the extinct volcano of Mount Bosavi. Since the volcano last erupted some 200,000 years ago, a unique flora and fauna has developed in its crater, isolated from its surroundings: a kind of hortus conclusus surrounded by dense jungle. In 2009, an expedition of British scientists entered the 1000 metre deep crater for the first time. In five weeks, they discovered more than 40 new species, including a frog with fangs. In the photographs, nature is an unreliable narrator: Colours shift, the rules of physics collapse and the images seem to surrender to a different concept of time and space.